Movement to reopen the transatlantic slave trade information
U.S. political campaign, 1850s
Map depicting William Walker, one of the freelance colonizers called "filibusters" who sought to capture Central American or Caribbean land to expand the territory of the United States where slavery was legal (see also Narciso López); the failed filibuster invasions of Nicaragua and Cuba, which occurred in the 1850s, were funded by slave owners and slave traders in the American South
The movement to reopen the transatlantic slave trade was an 1850s American campaign by white Southerners, many of them future Confederates, to repeal the 1808 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves and restart the transatlantic slave trade.[1] Due to their foundational role in the Southern economy, and in part due to rampant speculation, slaves had become very expensive. Advocates for restarting slave imports hoped to drive down prices by increasing supply, making slave ownership more accessible to those outside the planter class, and making individual slaves cheaper and more disposable, in the hopes that it would secure the political future of slavery in the United States.[2]
^Richardson, Joe M. (1973). "A Pro-Slavery Crusade: The Agitation to Reopen the African Slave Trade (review)". Civil War History. 19 (1): 83–84. doi:10.1353/cwh.1973.0028. ISSN 1533-6271. S2CID 145520833.
^Johnson, Walter (2009). Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780674039155. OCLC 923120203.
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